Thursday, August 9, 2012

Middle

Feet under me, past behind me, I feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn to findYour bright face,Your wordsStrumming regret, and yet singingKindness for meSaying what I've longed to hearFor years, since we metWhen it all lay aheadA desert, oasis, mountains, seas...Even then your travelsHad me listening at the wallDrawn around you by womenI placed a bookmarkIn our pages,Something to come back toWhen our placesMatched,When your feet grew tiredAnd you were thirstyFrom the salt of tears,As dreams loomElusive nowAnd anger spoils the landscape,Take the lenses from my eyesAnd see how I see you:See your sweet smileAnd the wide, open spaceFor love to slipInto your arms.Once you charmed me,The future clanging throughThe Windchime.Now you touch me,Your words moving over meIn firm strokes,My skin receiving them,Yeilding to your mercy.In the freedom of this moment,I realize I waited for youMore than one lifetimeDigging a gardenTo the music of my memoryOf you...Just a tune from a restless timeAs you sing your words,As you strum the stringsAnd I find the seedsWere planted long ago--Dormant energyRisingToward the sun--We lay down toWatch it grow...And you were never alone,We were here in the garden.Even as we trudged the earth,We were dancing in the garden,Spinning circles.Now your dusty feet I wash,Dry them with my hair,Set them in the leafy vinesThat line the path we madeNourished by our tears.So we will share the endless WellAnd you will never thirst--You've found it again.Vine around me where we layAs the past rots to feed our rootsAnd wisdom humidifiesTo cloud the pain,And we ripenJust to share the sweetnessOf ourselves with each other.The salt of all the struggling yearsGiving way to the middleWhere I lay my headAs you rest your vibrating handsOn my healing placesAnd I wet the tip of time with my tongue...Love is everywhere, hanging from the treesChiming in the breeze of yesterdayReminding me that we are hereBecause of its graceAs I turn to your faceAs I turn to the futureAs I turn in circlesWith youDancing